Featured Blog Posts – February 2010 Archive (4)

See http://www.abolitionist-online.com/_07lee.shtml for an interview I did for Abolitionist-Online a couple of years ago.

On Violence

Dear Colleagues:

Unfortunately, there are people who identify themselves as animal advocates who claim that the solution to the problem of animal exploitation is violence.

Some of these people have actually engaged in acts of violence against institutional exploiters. Others incite acts of violence by calling on people to use “intimidation” against animal exploiters…

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And You Wonder Why the Public Thinks That “Animal Rights” People Are Crazy?



Written by Gary L. Francione

Dear Colleagues:…

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"The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and other "wildlife conservation" laws are old-speciesist. They afford some protection to species and other groups but no rights to individual nonhumans.

The MMPA is designed to protect "species and population stocks," not individuals. It expresses "concern for the health and safety of dolphin populations," not dolphin individuals. Like fishers, hunters, and trappers, the MMPA refers to nonhuman individuals as if… Continue